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Kristie Lu Stout on fashion, being a half tiger mom and her awkward encounter with Lady Gaga

· March 25, 2018 ·

‘Really keeping my eyes fixed on North Korea. Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump — those are the brains that we need to pick right now.’ As a longtime CNN viewer, I got to know Kristie Lu Stout by her distinctive style of delivering the news and unique look. The award-winning news anchor became a familiar, reassuring voice of reason guiding viewers through shows like World Report and the current News Stream. The fact that she is half-Asian (Han Chinese on her mother’s side) made her even more interesting and relatable. They say you should never meet your idols because they’re bound to disappoint, but meeting Stout had the opposite effect on me: away from the news desk and standing at her full height of 5’11”, Kristie looks less like a seasoned journalist and more like a fashion model, albeit a highly articulate one. Don’t let her striking looks deceive you, though: she founded a speech-and-debate club in high school and holds both undergraduate and master’s degrees from Stanford University, in journalism and media studies, respectively. She also speaks Mandarin, having studied it at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the depth of her knowledge on Chinese issues makes her uniquely qualified… Read full this story

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